Tony Pérez

Cuban/american baseball player.

Born May 14th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Ciego de Ávila.

Raymond Floyd

American golfer.

Born September 4th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Fort Bragg.

Felipe González

Prime minister of spain from 1982 to 1996.

Born March 5th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Seville.

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017).

Born October 12th, 1942 in Shavei Tzion.

Died May 3rd, 2017 at 74 years old in Asheville (disease). ^[ref]

Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark

Princess of greece and denmark (1942–2026).

Born May 11th, 1942 in Cape Town.

Died January 15th, 2026 at 83 years old in Madrid. ^[ref]

Kang Kek Iew

War criminal and former leader in the khmer rouge (1942–2020).

Born November 17th, 1942 in Peam Bang.

Died September 2nd, 2020 at 77 years old in Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital (lung disease). ^[ref]

Marshall Bell

American actor.

Born September 28th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Tulsa.

Susan Hill

English author.

Born February 5th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Scarborough.

Thomas Menino

53rd mayor of boston, massachusetts, usa (1942-2014).

Born December 27th, 1942 in Hyde Park. ^[ref]

Died October 30th, 2014 at 71 years old in Boston (cancer).

Alan Rachins

American actor (1942–2024).

Born October 3rd, 1942 in Cambridge.

Died November 2nd, 2024 at 82 years old in Los Angeles (heart failure). ^[ref]

Tony Burrows

British singer.

Born April 14th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Exeter.

Carlos Reutemann

Argentine racing driver and politician.

Born April 12th, 1942 in Santa Fe.

Died July 7th, 2021 at 79 years old in Santa Fe (cerebral hemorrhage). ^[ref]

Muslim Magomayev

Soviet-azerbaijani singer.

Born August 17th, 1942 in Baku.

Died October 25th, 2008 at 66 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction). ^[ref]

Douglas Trumbull

American film director, special effects designer (1942–2022).

Born April 8th, 1942 in Los Angeles.

Died February 7th, 2022 at 79 years old in Albany (mesothelioma). ^[ref]

Jack DeJohnette

American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025).

Born August 9th, 1942 in Chicago.

Died October 26th, 2025 at 83 years old in Kingston. ^[ref]

Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-).

Born June 23rd, 1942 (age 83 years) in York.

Vivian Malone Jones

American activist.

Born July 15th, 1942 in Mobile.

Died October 13th, 2005 at 63 years old in Atlanta (stroke).

Bobbi Gibb

American marathon runner.

Born November 2nd, 1942 (age 83 years) in Cambridge.

Patricia Bath

American ophthalmologist and inventor (1942-2019).

Born November 4th, 1942 in Harlem. ^[ref]

Died May 30th, 2019 at 76 years old in San Francisco. ^[ref]

Diane Hegarty

Satanist religious leader (1942–2022).

Born July 10th, 1942 in Chicago.

Died July 23rd, 2022 at 80 years old ^[ref]

Quentin Bryce

25th governor-general of australia.

Born December 23rd, 1942 (age 83 years) in Brisbane.

Imogen Hassall

English actress (1942-1980).

Born August 25th, 1942 in Woking.

Died November 16th, 1980 at 38 years old in Wimbledon (drug overdose).

Max Cleland

American politician (1942-2021).

Born August 24th, 1942 in Atlanta. ^[ref]

Died November 9th, 2021 at 79 years old in Atlanta. ^[ref]

Shere Hite

German-american sexologist.

Born November 2nd, 1942 in St. Joseph. ^[ref]

Died September 9th, 2020 at 77 years old in Tottenham (Parkinson's disease, corticobasal degeneration). ^[ref]

Norman Lamont

British politician (born 1942).

Born May 8th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Shetland Islands.